FPF:UCJANK07 Introduction to Corpus Linguis - Course Information

UCJANK07 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics

Extent and Intensity

0/8/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Lucie Kučerová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Lucie Kučerová, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• English (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)

Course objectives

The goal of this course is to provide students with the characteristic features of language corpus, reasearch methods and possible use in various language applications. Emphasis is put on the comparison with traditional linguistic approaches and their weaknesses. Literatura: Biber D., Conrad S., Reppen R.: Corpus linguistics, Cambridge 1998. Ball , Catherine N Tutorial: Concordance and Corpora. Available at http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/corpora/tutorial.html Barlow, M. Corpus Linguistics. Available at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

1. Methods and goals of the corpus-based method
2. Quantitative and qualitative analysis
3. Corpora of the English language and tools
4. Corpus and lexicological analysis
5. Distribution of lexical units and their senses
6. Corpus and grammatical analysis
7. Grammatical categories, and structures and their functions within register distribution
8. Lexico-grammar and corpus
9. Lexico-grammatical associations patterns
10. Corpus and register variations
11. Multi-dimensional analysis
12. Corpus and error patterns

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